Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
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The chemistry of cannabis
Publicerades: 2022-05-05 -
Roe v Wade
Publicerades: 2022-05-04 -
Surviving the Falkands War
Publicerades: 2022-05-03 -
The sinking of the Belgrano
Publicerades: 2022-05-02 -
Algeria's rebel footballers
Publicerades: 2022-04-29 -
The Algerians who fought for France
Publicerades: 2022-04-28 -
Algeria: The Massacre in Paris
Publicerades: 2022-04-27 -
The War in Algeria: A French soldier's experience
Publicerades: 2022-04-26 -
Algeria’s Milk Bar Bomber
Publicerades: 2022-04-25 -
The battle for Kinder Scout
Publicerades: 2022-04-22 -
Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising
Publicerades: 2022-04-21 -
Britain's Soviet spy scandal
Publicerades: 2022-04-20 -
Women's rights in Basra
Publicerades: 2022-04-19 -
Erasmus: Europe's student exchange scheme
Publicerades: 2022-04-18 -
The World Wide Web
Publicerades: 2022-04-15 -
How Tinder changed the dating game
Publicerades: 2022-04-14 -
Greece's Great Famine
Publicerades: 2022-04-13 -
The largest war crimes trial in history
Publicerades: 2022-04-12 -
Nato intervenes in Kosovo
Publicerades: 2022-04-11 -
The Great American Grain Robbery
Publicerades: 2022-04-08
Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more. Recent episodes explore everything from the death of Adolf Hitler, the first spacewalk and the making of the movie Jaws, to celebrity tortoise Lonesome George, the Kobe earthquake and the invention of superglue. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: Eva Peron – Argentina’s Evita; President Ronald Reagan and his famous ‘tear down this wall’ speech; Thomas Keneally on why he wrote Schindler’s List; and Jacques Derrida, France’s ‘rock star’ philosopher. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the civil rights swimming protest, the disastrous D-Day rehearsal, and the death of one of the world’s oldest languages.
